Camille Freeman

herbalist | nutritionist | business mentor

When I started my practice in 2004, I had no idea how much personal growth - emotionally, spiritually, and skill-wise - would be required to start and run a practice.

Like so many of you, I started with lots of education and no idea how to find clients. Or run a practice. It's common to feel insecure and overwhelmed at how many steps there suddenly seem to be between you and doing the work you were trained to do.

After you figure out those first steps, the complexity still remains - and maybe even grows over time. Cases get harder. Life pressures evolve. Rather than not having enough clients, now you're juggling too many. Keeping up with both growing as a clinician and holding a practice together can feel lonely and like a heavy weight to carry.

Especially when all you want to do is help people and sustain yourself.

I get it. And it’s why I do what I do.

I’ve been a practicing licensed nutritionist and clinical herbalist, university educator, and mentor to hundreds of students and clients for nearly twenty years, but I still remember how hard it was to take those first steps (and the second ones, and the fifteenth ones).

In all that time, one thing has stayed the same: growing a practice with integrity and empathy while making a living requires monumental personal growth.

Often, it's harder than it should be.

When you take surround yourself with a supportive community and experienced guidance, small steps can add up to bigger ones. Growth can take root from a place of alignment, professionalism, and sustainability.

Now I mentor both new and experienced herbalists and nutritionists who're looking for help doing just that.

Whether you’re brand new and trying to figure out all. the. things., or you’re a professional looking for help and peer support in navigating tricky cases, or you’re looking to grow and deepen your practice as a clinician, I’ve developed programs to support you.

Through group mentoring, monthly CEU webinars, online courses, my podcast, and so much more - I offer my work in service of an industry I love.

It is my wholehearted belief that when big hearted people create thriving, well-aligned practices that can support themselves and their communities in better health and wellness, we all rise.

My Teachers & Mentors & Degrees
I believe that lineage is important. I began learning about herbs with Monica Rude of Desert Woman Botanicals in Silver City, NM (from the Michael Moore tradition) and then studied at MUIH with teachers Simon Mills, James Snow, Kevin Spelman & Jim Duke (along with a whole host of guest instructors). I continue to learn daily from books & workshops, from clients, from the plants, and from others in my community of practice.

I have a doctorate in Clinical Nutrition from MUIH, two master's degrees (one in physiology from Georgetown University and another in herbal medicine from MUIH) and a bachelor's degree from Rice University. I am a registered herbalist and was a licensed nutritionist for over 15 years.

I acknowledge that much of my/our herbal knowledge was passed down or stolen from Black and indigenous communities and that subsequently people from these communities have been marginalized or excluded from mainstream herbal medicine. I give thanks to these unnamed teachers and ancestors.

For business skills, I have been most influenced by the following teachers (some of whom I have studied with directly, and some of whom I have learned from less formally via workshops, books, and so forth): Mark Silver, Illana Burk, Trudi LeBron, Christine Kane, Tara McMullin, George Kao, Jenny Blake, Jenny Shih, Bear Hebert, and Rachel Cook.

Core Beliefs
I believe that herbs and nutrition play an integral part in bringing healing to people and the planet. I believe it is possible to create an ethical, sustainable, thriving clinical practice. I welcome practitioners and clients from diverse backgrounds, including those from various racial/ethnic groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and other traditionally oppressed communities. I believe that Black Lives Matter, trans rights are human rights, and abortion is health care.